Chapter 645 Like a fish in water
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Zhao Guoliang saw in the telescope that the remaining three ships had fled back to the port, and said to the herald beside him: "Order, order the navy to shoot at close range, and the army to land from the dock!" ”
Li Tinglong, as a deputy general, saw that the Nagasaki wharf was crowded, and some people built barricades on the wharf, ready to resist to the end.
"My lord, the Japanese people are on guard on the dock, so it's better to pick a flat place outside the city to land!"
"No, Nagasaki belongs to the bay, and the seaside is hilly, which is not conducive to our naval artillery support, although there are some buildings in the city, but the Japanese wooden houses cannot withstand our muskets. In addition, you have also seen the combat effectiveness of the Japanese people on Fukue Island, so what else is there to be afraid of? ”
Zhao Guoliang was the commander-in-chief, and Li Tinglong heard that the commander-in-chief had already made up his mind, so he couldn't say anything, so he could only order 11 warships to shoot at close range to support the landing army.
Zhu Jiang, who was on the troop carrier behind, saw the flagship waving the flag and ordering the landing, Zhu Jiang shouted to the soldiers standing on the deck: "Brothers, you have all seen it, it will be our turn!" Don't you want to kill people and rob money? His Majesty the Emperor has an order, thirty percent of the plundering belongs to individuals, now let me see what you are capable of! ”
The guys in the first regiment listened to the commander's words and let them rob, and shouted long live the emperor one by one!
Zhu Jiang nodded, and asked his soldiers to put on slatted armor for themselves, board the bridge, and prepare to land.
Due to the relocation of the arsenal in Guangdong to Nanjing, the production capacity of the musket factory was sharply reduced, and only one division of weapons and equipment was produced this year, and it was all transported by Zhu Hongsan to Wuchang to equip the Ninth Division, and there was no way that the Tenth Division still used cold weapons.
The Ming warships were getting closer and closer to the wharf, and the soldiers defending on the wharf were very nervous when they saw the big ships as high as a mountain, and they began to fire their guns when the warships were 500 meters away from the wharf. The cannons of the Japanese army were cast in the Wanli period to prevent the Ming army and the Korean army from hitting Nagasaki, and now more than 40 years have passed, and they are older than most of the soldiers, plus the gunpowder is stored for a long time, and the accuracy of the shells is not enough, and it can only hit 200 meters away, which is still far from the Ming warships.
Li Tinglong was originally worried about the artillery of the Wa Kingdom, but when he saw this bear, he laughed happily and ordered: "Give me a cannon, change it for shotguns, and let these little dwarfs see what real artillery is!" ”
The sailors of the artillery deck received the order and began to shoot at the crowd on the shore with shotguns. Shotguns hitting unprotected infantry were simply slaughter, and after a few volleys, there were no more people left on the docks.
At this time, twenty troop carriers began to approach the dock one by one, laying down the army.
The first group to go ashore was, of course, the first regiment of Zhao Guoliang's descendant of the Eighth Division, and these guys began to shoot the fish that slipped through the net on the dock with their guns on the boat, and the Japanese soldiers turned over on their backs.
The second group to go ashore were the hand-to-hand combat troops of cold weapons, the gang of killers of the first regiment of Zhujiang. These guys are armed with sharp blades one by one, and the horizontal knives made of high-carbon steel are not at all something that the Japanese army iron knives can resist. Even the slatted armor worn on his body could resist the iron cannons of the Japanese army from a distance of 100 meters.
There has been peace in the country for more than 40 years, there are basically no major wars, and Nagasaki is a commercial port, and those Japanese soldiers basically lack training and equipment, and some of them are wearing bamboo armor, which is the opponent of the Ming army armed to the teeth. Soon, Zhu Jiang and his people rushed into the city of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki is now the only open city in the Wa Kingdom, and its prosperity is ten million times stronger than that of the remote Fukue Island. They saw that the guys from the Tenth Division were a little uncomfortable, and they were ready to stop it, but after thinking about it, this was not a domestic country anyway, and the emperor also said that one-third of the robbery belonged to the individual, so why not go and grab it yourself.
In this way, the entire 12,000 troops stationed in Japan were all caught up in a frenzy of burning, killing and looting. Some Han Chinese in Nagasaki were unlucky.
Nagasaki is an international commercial port, naturally in addition to the Japanese, there are Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, among which the Chinese are the most, the entire Nagasaki port has more than 10,000 Chinese, and there is also a Karato town in Nagasaki City.
But now these Ming troops are red-eyed, so what kind of Chinese and Japanese, naturally all the rich people in the family are killed, and the beautiful girls are raped first and then killed, and Nagasaki City has become a complete hell.
In the panic, I don't know who started the fire first, and since Nagasaki is located in a bay, the sea breeze in September is dry and cold, and the Japanese still like to live in wooden houses made of bamboo and planks, and immediately the city is full of fires.
Zhao Guoliang saw the fire in the city, and scolded angrily: "That bastard set the fire? What should I do if I am attacked by the Japanese in such a chaotic way? "But now it's all messed up, the commander can't find the soldiers, the soldiers can't find the commander, and no one listens to Zhao Guoliang's orders.
In this way, the fire of Nagasaki burned for six days, and after burning everything that could be burned in the city, it stopped, but the entire city of Nagasaki was burned down by two-thirds.
The guys of the 10th Division had already killed enough and robbed enough, and they were escorted out of the city by the people of the 8th Division one by one and stood in line outside the city.
Zhao Guoliang found out that more than 200 people had disappeared in such a scuffle, probably because they acted alone and were cleaned up by the Japanese warriors. Seeing that more than 200 people died for no reason, Zhao Guoliang was distressed, he only had a total of 12,000 combat troops, and 200 people died in one battle, and he died in a few battles.
Zhao Guoliang called the four regiment commanders under him and scolded: "You can do it now!" After going ashore, the commander didn't listen to his orders? Who told you to rob it? ”
The four regiment commanders didn't speak one by one, how can they mix in the army in the future if they betrayed their brothers at this time?
Zhao Guoliang saw that the four guys were pretending to be dead dogs, and he was even more angry, and scolded: "You don't say it, do you?" Come on, pull these four guys outside and give me a hundred lashes! ”
The kind of cowhide whip in the army, let alone a hundred, is twenty that can be beaten, and you doubt life. Zhu Jiang saw that it was not okay to be silent, so he stood up and said: "Report to the Admiral, it was the last general who ordered people to loot first!" ”
Zhao Guoliang saw that someone admitted it, and scolded: "Okay! It's you kid again, the trouble you caused when you were in Yangzhou is not over, and now you are here again! Someone came, dragged Zhu Jiang out, and beat him with a hundred whips! ”
Others didn't know Zhu Jiang's identity, but the deputy general Li Tinglong knew, how could he watch the prince being beaten, and quickly stood up and pleaded: "Lord Admiral, Zhu Jiang can't help it, you also know that the guys in the Tenth Division are all killing talents, and they can't all complain about Zhu Jiang, please see that Zhu Jiang is the first to rush into the city and spare him!" ”
At this time, other generals also pleaded for Zhu Jiang, and Zhao Guoliang didn't really want to beat him, but now he had a step down and said angrily: "Okay!" Your sins will be recorded for you first, and when you return to Nanjing, the Governor will tell Your Majesty in detail! ”
The fire in Nagasaki lasted six days, and many valuables were burned, but fortunately, although the gold and silver were burned, they were not delayed, but it was a pity that the ivory, silk, fish gelatin, rice, deerskin, etc. in the shops could be transported back to China to exchange money. But just like that, the Ming army also got 1.5 million taels of silver and 12,000 taels of gold in Nagasaki.
This number really made Zhao Guo's conscience happy, this is about the same, if you get it like this, it will be enough to grab a few more cities. Zhao Guoliang ordered the army to be stationed outside Nagasaki and loaded the spoils into ten large ships and transported them back to China first.
When the spoils of war arrived in Nanjing, it was already early October, and it was already snowing lightly in Nanjing. As soon as the ships returning from the Wa Kingdom docked, a large amount of gold and silver was transported to the treasury, which immediately silenced the cries of the DPRK and China against the use of foreign troops.
At that time, Zhu Hongsan bypassed the cabinet in the name of the Military Aircraft Department and directly sent troops to the Japanese state. Some literati in the cabinet headed by Ma Mingyuan are still very opposed, and their reason is very simple: although the war in the north has ceased now, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops facing each other in Yangzhou and on both sides of the Yangtze River in Wuchang, and they do not know when the war will rekindle. But at such a critical moment, the emperor even wants to use troops abroad, which is really a joke about the fortunes of the country.
Of course, Zhu Hongsan scoffed at this point of view, where would he get the money to pay you cabinet masters a salary? You all have one or two thousand silver dollars a month, and now the treasury is empty, can you run mice, and Lao Tzu will starve to death if you don't go to the money?
However, Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything to anyone in his heart, everything depends on reality. When the first batch of war booty of the Japanese state came ashore, the cries of the DPRK and China for reckless military force immediately disappeared from the market, and everyone understood people, and there was no real silver shouting loudly. At the same time, the tone of the Americanization of the DPRK and the sending of troops to the Japanese state began to rise, and some shameless literati took advantage of this victory to tout Zhu Hongsan as the first holy ancestor of the ages, even more powerful than Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. The reason is very simple, there were Japanese criminals during Zhu Yuanzhang's period, and Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to the Japanese country to inquire, how do you know that people will ignore you and ignore it, so that Lao Zhu can't do anything.
Now Emperor Shenwu just sent 10,000 soldiers to beat the helpless Japanese Kou of Taizu, isn't this still the Holy Ancestor? Some literati went even more extreme, suggesting that Zhu Hongsan's temple name should be set now, and he would be called Ming Shengzu.
Zhu Hongsan also blushed a little after hearing the news, although he was shameless, but he was not so shameless as to call himself the Holy Ancestor, this sycophant was really a bit too much.
Of course, the sycophant showman didn't get a good job, it wasn't that Zhu Hongsan punished him, but that he made a public outrage by slapping the sycophants, what should we do if you let you finish filming?
Therefore, the ministers of the DPRK and China were indignant and impeached this shameless scholar, this Confucian scum. In the end, Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to convict him of bullying the king, but instead of beheading, he was assigned to Luzon to farm.
But how can Zhu Hongsan forget this kind of talent? At the same time of distribution, Zhu Hongsan firmly remembered this young talent, Zhejiang Huijiren, Yao Qisheng!